July 2023

Last Sunday we had what felt like a requisite quintessential summer experience of going to an event (the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix) on a hot day and traipsing all over in the heat, drinking overpriced lemonade, and eating fair food the came with a gigantic amount of fries. The fries came with one order of… Read more »

In my last update I forgot to detail a significant moment at the beach, along with the fact that we were so glad to see family there and had a great time. We even managed to avoid getting sunburned! That is a minor miracle and Amy was impressed even if she disliked the many times… Read more »

Sarah and Amy had an artful week of Camp Anna, this time including Amy’s BFF. They went to the pool and library and sewed bags and made hair bows, stickers, drawings of negative space, contour drawings, and played a musical version of Simon where Anna or a kid played notes on a xylophone while saying… Read more »

On Monday Sarah and I had our customary time at the pool where Sarah gets a lesson and Amy and I swim. Amy didn’t go this time because she had already gone swimming at camp. A few weeks earlier when we had been leaving the pool I was so shocked to see the lifeguard looking… Read more »

Roughly twenty years ago I started my journey with the Alexander Technique. I feel like all of my experience thus far has been preparing me for this moment in my life now, helping Amy with her Schroth therapy homework. So far we only have three things for her to practice – breathing to engage her… Read more »